Curiosity rover to land in Mars’s Gale Crater to go looking for all times, finally answer Bowie’s nagging questions

It’s gotten its own photo shoot , some cool animation , and the interest of James Cameron — and now Curiosity finally has a destination. NASA’s pluckily-named Mars rover is decided to land next to a mountain contained in the red planet’s 96-mile-wide Gale Crater. Curiosity is scheduled to the touch down in August 2012 looking for life at the fourth rock from the sun. The crater, certainly one of 60 suggested sites, was chosen because of its potential for a secure landing and the potential of scientific discovery, thanks partly to nearby geographical formations that can were created by water. Here’s hoping it encounters some serious space oddities when it gets there.

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